2017 Yearbook - Universidad ORT Uruguay

64 2017 Yearbook, School of Architecture: Ibero-America Scholarships – Young Professors and Researchers – Santander Universities. As part of the "Ibero-America Scholarships. Young Professors and Researchers. Santander Universities," Banco Santander awarded a fellowship in 2017 to Architect Paula Cardellino, a research professor at the Faculty of Architecture, who completed an internship from September 8 to October 1 on the future of learning environments, curricular innovation, social inclusion, and the use of ICT at Newcastle University, United Kingdom. Project Leader: Julio Fernández Funding: Banco Santander Duration: 6 months ORACLE Institute of Education: Regional Observatory on Quality and Equity in Higher Education in Latin America This project, coordinated by the Autonomous University of Barcelona, aims to create the Regional Observatory on Quality and Equity in Higher Education in Latin America (ORACLE). This observatory aims to create the organizational conditions to incorporate an Institutional Equity Unit into the structure of each university. has participation of 20 countries, each represented by two universities; in Uruguay, the ACJ University Institute and Universidad ORT Uruguay are participating. Project Leader: Andrea Tejera Funding: European Union’s Erasmus+ Program Duration: 36 months Smart Data: Developing Digital Literacy in Pre-Adolescent Students Regarding Social Media This project aims to develop a social media application that can be used on a wide range of digital devices to promote digital literacy among schoolchildren. This is a comparative study that will work with groups of pre-adolescents (ages 9 to 12) in Australia and Uruguay, with the aim of analyzing how students interact with and understand social media. Project Leader: Micaela Reich Funding: National Agency for Research and Innovation (ANII) Duration: 24 months Ubiquitous Learning. Mobile devices in new learning ecologies in the initial training of secondary school teachers The objective of this project is to investigate the uses, possibilities, advantages, and limitations of mobile learning. This study seeks to identify the possibilities offered by the use of mobile devices, such as cell phones and laptops provided by the Ceibal Plan to teacher education students, and to analyze new ways of learning in contexts and environments with high technological availability. Principal Investigator: Eduardo Rodríguez Zidán Funding: National Agency for Research and Innovation (ANII) Duration: 12 months PROJECTS INITIATED OR APPROVED IN 2017